State of Origin helps Nine to big win
An audience of 2.472m viewers watched NSW beat Queensland in the second match of the 2012 State of Origin Rugby League on Nine.
The match was Wednesday’s clear ratings winner, followed by the pre and post match wrap-ups but was down slightly on the first game result of 2.51m.
However, it was the highest ever game 2 result, with a peak of 2.823m.
Across the five city metro markets, Sydney was the clear winner with 1.185m average viewers ahead of Brisbane’s 774,000. Melbourne had 366,000 viewers while Adelaide had 68,000 and perth 79,000, according to preliminary results from OzTam.
Regardless of your sporting preferences, not much can hold a light to the sheer spectacle of an Origin game. AFL and rugby would kill for something like that.
Rubbish, Kevin. I tried to watch it, really earnestly tried, but couldn’t get any more than about 20 mins in.
I’m an AFL fan, but I’d rather watch basketball that league.
Only rugby league heads can enjoy the game – it’s boring.
Kevin,
Look at the AFL grand final viewers stats. Or the competitive ANZAC day match.
Thanks.
Yes, but look at the gulf in State of Origin numbers between the northern and southern states. Not good if you are looking at a national spend.
@ Robbo… Well, thankfully you’re not head of Nine Sport. Again, regardless of your sporting preferences, the SOO remains a staggering cap in the NRL’s cap. The highest rating programme on Australian television for a sport largely confined to two states. And not one game, but three games too all pulling 2.5-million plus audiences (which is what I believe the AFL grand final does nationally.) The decider in a couple of weeks could top three-million. So again, yes, AFL and rugby would kill for something like that.
Kevin you are spot on, the others don’t know what they are talking about, if you include all ratings ie. regional figures origin gets 4million viewers just australia wide. Plus new zealand and other overseas markets it is a major draw card. Last years AFL grand final drew total 3.572million, 150,000 more then leagues. Essentially its like having 4 grand finals for NRL.
The decider will be huge!
Can anyone point me in the direction of the latest news regarding the broadcasting rights for the NRL? I heard that 2012 was the end and that a new agreement will begin for 2013 onwards.
Basically, nine and fox have made an initial mid and they are in discussions with 7 and 10. Hopefully, 9 will not keep the results as the do not do the NRL justice. Ratings would also be seriously boosted if there was a free to air saturday and monday game. See links below for details
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-le.....1yd7r.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.a.....6390573257